iPods Topped Holiday Shopping Lists

Consumer electronics topped holiday gift lists this year, at least according to shipments made from online retailer Amazon.com. The Seattle-based seller of a variety of merchandise said iPods “ruled the holiday season in Electronics, owning the top three slots – the Apple 3GB iPod Nano (black), the Apple 30 GB iPod with Video Playback (black), and the Apple 512 MB iPod Shuffle were the top sellers. Video game hardware was also hot with Game Boy Advance SP in Pearl Blue, the Sony PlayStation Portable Value Pack, and the Electric Blue Nintendo DS leading the pack. Video games were also popular this year, according to Amazon, which said that top sellers were Mario Party 7 for Game Cube, Sid Meier’s Civilization IV for PCs and Microsoft’s Age of Empires 3 for PCs. Amazon said in a statement following the Christmas holiday that it had enjoyed its most successful holiday season ever, as measured by sales from Nov. 25 through Dec. 22.